Hundreds of Angelenos gathered in Martin Luther King Jr. Park this Monday for a Labor Day present: Mayor Eric Garcetti announced plans to raise the minimum wage in Los Angeles, from $9.00 to $13.25 per hour by 2017.

As crowds cheered and celebratory music filled the air, I talked to one council member about how this would affect his constituents, and met with a young man who has known minimum wage living since he was a child.